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Arthur T Erickson Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2018
4
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Health$64kYouth Development$30kArts & Culture$29kRecreation & Sports$17kEducation$15kEnvironment$12kCivil Rights$10kAnimals$3k
02FY2018 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,805
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$5,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$3,805
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA$1,000
DESMOID TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM: $10k → 5%USA HIGH SCHOOL CLAY TARGET LEAGUE: $5k → 6%EAGLE BLUFF ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER: $2k → 8%CARLETON COLLEGE: $10k → 11%THE ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $10k → 11%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $15k → 12%BETHEL UNIVERSITY: $500 → 14%DESMOID TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%CLK FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%MINNEAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $4k → 12%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $5k → 17%NC LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC: $5k → 11%SPECIAL OLYMPICS MN: $1k → 11%SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%THE MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $10k → 11%ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 11%GUTHRIE THEATER: $10k → 11%NORTHERN CLAY CENTER: $4k → 11%ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%PROJECT SUCCESS: $30k → 11%WALKER ART CENTER: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
4
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
The Carle Foundation Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
7
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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8
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
9
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is Mind Over Matter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOU…MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM — $10,000 · OtherMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUMMIND OVER MATTER — $10,000 · OtherMIND OVER MATTERTHE MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS — $10,000 · OtherTHE MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF THE…CLK FOUNDATION — $4,000 · OtherCLK FOUNDATION+2 more — $2,000 · OtherPROJECT SUCCESS — $30,000 · EducationPROJECT SUCCESSCARLETON COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE+1 more — $500 · EducationCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $18,805 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDA…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEA…N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC — $4,925 · HealthN C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSP…HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEA…WALKER ART CENTER — $5,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART C…NORTHERN CLAY CENTER — $4,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN CLA…Minneapolis Parks Foundation — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMinneapol…USA CLAY TARGET LEAGUE — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA CLAY …The Advocates For Human Rights — $10,000 · InternationalAnimal Humane Society — $3,000 · AnimalsEAGLE BLUFF ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC — $1,500 · Environment
Other$51,000Education$40,500Health$39,230Arts & Culture$19,000Recreation & Sports$15,000International$10,000Animals$3,000Environment$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROJECT SUCCESS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $18,805 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIND OVER MATTER — $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMinneapolis Parks Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUSA CLAY TARGET LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetN C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC — $4,925 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN CLAY CENTER — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAnimal Humane Society — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE BLUFF ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DESMOID TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis Found…The Blackbaud Giving …Mightycause Charitabl…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Arthur T Erickson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Arthur T Erickson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Arthur T Erickson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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